Apologies for bringing back a slightly older thread.
I recently got my 2405, but while looking for info on the 2407 I ran into this Japanese site comparing eyestrain among some LCD monitors. The tests are subjective and the guy explains that he is by no means an expert on this, but the tests are interesting and they have been supported by 2 1000+ post threads on the hardware section of 2ch forums (Japan's giant anonymous BBS community). It lists the 2405 as being made of LG's S-IPS panel, and there's quite a few people reportedly having trouble with these, even after brightness adjustments have been made. The primary argument seems to be that the way the RGBs are coming out, and the slight unevenness of the brightness among them, cause a slight glittering effect (they called it "giratsuki" "giragira" on that page) that can have an effect on your eyes focusing in on, say, text on a white bg.
Of course on the other hand, there are plenty of users that've come out with no problems using these panels; the relatively few postings about problems with 2405's show that. I'm still deciding whether I'm going to keep the monitor or not, as though I do have good eyesight I've had a few instances where I suddenly couldn't get my eyes focused properly when I used another LCD panel for a prolonged period of time. I really like the size of the monitor, so I'm trying to see if changing color schemes on the desktop and webbrowsers to mostly black bg on light text would help (in addition to brightness adjustments).
I recently got my 2405, but while looking for info on the 2407 I ran into this Japanese site comparing eyestrain among some LCD monitors. The tests are subjective and the guy explains that he is by no means an expert on this, but the tests are interesting and they have been supported by 2 1000+ post threads on the hardware section of 2ch forums (Japan's giant anonymous BBS community). It lists the 2405 as being made of LG's S-IPS panel, and there's quite a few people reportedly having trouble with these, even after brightness adjustments have been made. The primary argument seems to be that the way the RGBs are coming out, and the slight unevenness of the brightness among them, cause a slight glittering effect (they called it "giratsuki" "giragira" on that page) that can have an effect on your eyes focusing in on, say, text on a white bg.
Of course on the other hand, there are plenty of users that've come out with no problems using these panels; the relatively few postings about problems with 2405's show that. I'm still deciding whether I'm going to keep the monitor or not, as though I do have good eyesight I've had a few instances where I suddenly couldn't get my eyes focused properly when I used another LCD panel for a prolonged period of time. I really like the size of the monitor, so I'm trying to see if changing color schemes on the desktop and webbrowsers to mostly black bg on light text would help (in addition to brightness adjustments).
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